GVSU and The Meadows will be hosting the NCAA Division II Men's Golf National Championship for the third time since 2001.

Allendale, Mich. -- Twenty teams and eight individual participants from all four corners of the country will meet up at The Meadows in Allendale, Mich. for the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf National Championship. Competitors will be arriving on Sunday (May 18) for a practice round before taking part in three days of stroke play and three rounds of match play from Monday, May 19 through Friday, May 23.

The loaded field contains 13 of the nation’s Top 20 teams, including the last three national champions – No. 1 Barry, No. 6 Nova Southeastern and No. 2 Cal State Monterey Bay – and six of the last seven runners-up.

Five of the eight teams that qualified for match play at the 2013 National Championship, which was held at Hershey (Pa.) Country Club, are back again.

Additionally, 29 of the country’s Top 50 golfers will be taking part in the tournament. Seven of last year’s top-14 finishers, headlined by defending national champion Tim Crouch of Florida Southern, are making return trips to one of the biggest stages in college golf.

Crouch took medalist honors at the South/Southeast Super Regional to earn one of eight coveted individual spots. He is looking to become just the third Division II men’s golfer to win back-to-back national titles and only the fourth to win multiple crowns. The last player to do so was PGA Tour golfer Briny Baird, who won the 1994 and 1995 individual championships at Valdosta State.

Malone, which is in its first year of NCAA Division II championship eligibility, took home the team title at the Midwest/Central Super Regional in Eureka, Mo. Central Missouri came in second, while Saginaw Valley State climbed all the way from 15th place to third in the closing round and Central Oklahoma finished fourth.

Nebraska-Kearney’s Michael Colgate fired a four-under par 212 to win the individual portion of the event and keep his season alive. Marcos Sevilla of Southeastern Oklahoma State nabbed the other individual spot with a one-over par 217.

Defending national champion Barry picked up its school-record seventh victory at the South/Southeast Super Regional to advance to nationals. Nova Southeastern was just six shots behind, No. 3 South Carolina Aiken and No. 8 Armstrong tied for third place and No. 5 Lynn – last season’s national runner-up – took fifth. No. 12 North Alabama and Delta State tied for sixth place and qualified for the championship.

Ryan Gendron of No. 24 Saint Leo tallied a five-under par 211, came in second place and joined Crouch as an individual qualifier.

No. 18 Saint Edward’s bested the South Central/West Super Regional field by 16 strokes for its third consecutive victory. No. 4 Chico State and No. 16 Hawaii-Hilo tied for second place and Cal State Monterey Bay, the 2011 national champion, checked in at fourth. No. 9 Western New Mexico took fifth place to qualify for the first time since 2010 and Simon Fraser came in sixth to move on.

Midwestern State’s Derek Oland, who is the nation’s No. 2-ranked golfer, fired a five-under par 67 on the final day of competition to win the event with a four-under par 212. Colin Prater of Colorado Mesa carded a three-over par 219 over 54 holes to earn the regional’s other individual spot.

In the Atlantic/East Super Regional, Indiana (Pa.) finished atop the leaderboard for the second straight season. The Crimson Hawks will be making their 32nd national championship appearance – the third-most in all of Division II.

Saint Thomas Aquinas took second place for its fifth national title berth in the past six years, while Charleston (W.Va.) came in third to advance.

Individually, Louis Kelly of Adelphi and Dowling’s Kurt Brey finished in the top five to qualify.

This will be the third time Grand Valley State and The Meadows has hosted the Division II National Championship. Barry won the title in 2007 and West Florida took the team crown in 2001. Both of those tournaments were decided by 72 holes of stroke play, but the format was altered to its current state in 2011.

Tee times and live scoring information will be made available later in the week.